Job Description
We are closely partnering with a well-funded, legal automation / AI start up, focused on building matter management solutions for specific legal practices, including conveyancing, banking & finance, and disputes & litigation. Each solution gives a practice a single operating layer to automate procedural, high-volume work, delegate matter steps to reliable, auditable workflows, and visualise the status of every matter end to end. This is a hybrid role based in Sydney or Brisbane.
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The firm are building a matter management solution to manage dispute matters. This hire heads up the build end to end: domain authority on how disputes run, validation of every workflow against real practice, and peer-to-peer engagement with the litigation practices they sell to. The solution covers court deadline management, document bundling, chronology building, and correspondence tracking; the infrastructure layer for matters that run for months or years.
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About the Role
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Act as the domain authority on litigation practice: define the court‐deadline logic, procedural rules, and edge cases that drive the automation engine
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Validate every workflow against how disputes actually run; directions timetables, interlocutory applications, discovery, document bundles, chronologies, and correspondence tracking
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Work hands‐on with product and engineering to translate litigation practice into product features, data models, and automations
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Lead customer engagement. This could include running peer‐to‐peer conversations with litigation partners and their teams, and validating the product against real matters
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Review and quality‐check automated workflows for accuracy, completeness, and jurisdictional correctness
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About You
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Senior commercial litigation background; at least 5 years of litigation experience in a law firm, running complex commercial disputes.
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Deep working knowledge of court procedure across Australian jurisdictions, including directions timetables, discovery, evidence preparation, and costs
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Ability to articulate complex litigation processes clearly to a technical team
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Precision with business rules and edge cases; the platform is only as good as the procedural logic behind it
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Comfortable working inside a rapid‐moving product build team alongside engineers and designers
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Nice to Have
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Insolvency and/or construction disputes experience - this would be a genuine bonus for the product roadmap
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Prior exposure to legal technology, software teams, or process‐improvement work within your firm
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Experience running matters across multiple Australian jurisdictions
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📌 Legal Engineer - Litigation (New South Wales)
🏢 Novum Global
📍 New South Wales